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Doctors are taught how to treat skin cancer – but not necessarily how to empathise with those who have it.
Many Americans unable to afford health expenses are raising funds through medical crowdfunding. What are the risks?
Both GPs and patients need to wake up to the immediate risk that antibiotic misuse poses.
Doctors can be struck off for having sexual contact with their patient, but where are the sanctions for patients?
Epidurals were developed for pregnant women to address the severe pain of labour. In Australia approximately one in three pregnant women in labour has an epidural for pain relief.
There’s often limited evidence for many common types of surgery. Understanding what makes good evidence is the key to deciding what’s best for you.
One of the UK’s most senior nurses has been forced to apologise after publicly attacking professional practice. Here’s the case for the defence.
Noisy bedtimes and MRSA – how patient experiences can address issues during hospital stays.
We more readily trust medical treatments but not the people who treat us.
Discharging hospital patients sounds easy so why do we get it so wrong?
A terminally ill doctor has started a campaign to encourage healthcare staff to introduce themselves to patients. Kate Granger initiated the “Hello my name is …” campaign while she was hospitalised and…
The law of consent to medical procedures is (to paraphrase legal philosopher HLA Hart) “tantalisingly obscure”. Narrowly interpreted, the law sets out a professional standard regarding the risks a medical…
Many governments are going to great lengths to provide better information about the quality of health and social care services. In the US, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently announced a raft…
There is great enthusiasm for using “big data” to enable better biomedical research across the globe. But big data isn’t just about collating lots of old and new records. Including ongoing real-time data…
The debate about uploading nearly all data from UK medical practices to a national database continues to cause concern. Responding to fears that the information held in the care.data database will put…
For the first time, Gold Coast hospitals are preparing for schoolies using technology to predict when drunk and injured teens will need help. With over 28,000 school leavers about to descend on the Gold…
David Nicholson, the retiring Chief Executive of NHS England, has warned against what he called “carpet bombing” the NHS with competition. For him, and others, less focus on competition is a good thing…
Principales colaboradores
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Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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CEO, Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Learning Healthcare, Duke University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in health and social care, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow
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Professor, University of Technology Sydney
